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dusky (dark i)luin))eoiLs in life); length (skins), S0.4:-95.S (91.7); 

 wing, 51. 8-55.4 (53.1); tail, 27.4-31 (29.5); exposed culnion, 6.9-7.6 

 (7.1); depth of bill at l)ase, 3.3-3.6; tarsus, 12.7-13.5 (13); middle toe, 

 8.6-9.7 (9.1).^ 



Adult female. — Above deep yellowish olive-green, l)ecoming more 

 yellowish on forehead, where the feathers show darker central spots; 

 cheeks and chin pale yellowish olive or olive-yellowish; throat pale 

 gray, in strong contrast with j^ellowish of chin, etc., and the deep 

 olive-yellow or dull gaml)oge ^^ellow of chest, breast, sides, and flanks 

 (the latter more olivaceous); abdomen white; under tail-coverts pale 

 brownish gray; bill, iris, and feet as in adult male; length (skins), 89.7- 

 93.5 (91.9); wing, 53.1-55.9 (54.1); tail, 28.2-30.5 (29.5); exposed cul- 

 men, 6.9-7.4 (7.1); depth of bill at base, 3.6-3.8 (3.8); tarsus, 13.2- 

 13.5 (13.2); middle toe, 9.4-9.7 (9. 4).- 



Guatemala to Jsthnuis of Panama. 



Phonasea JmmiliK Cabanis, Journ. fi'ir Orn., viii, Sept., 1860, 334 (Costa Rica; 

 coll. Berlin Mus.). 



Acroleptes humilis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 89 (Costa Rica; c-rit. ). 



Euphonia JtumUis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 98 (Costa Rica). — Frant- 

 zius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 297 (Costa Rica). — Nitttincj, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vi, 1883, 373 (San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua; song). 



Euphonia minuta (not Euphona minuta Cabanis) Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 

 1860, 275 (Coban, Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 332 

 (Panama R. R. ). — Salvin; Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1870, 186(Buga])a, Chiriqui; 

 Calovevora,Veragua). — Sclater, Ibis, 1878, 373 (Chontales, Nicaragua); Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 71, part(Bugaba, Chiriqui; Calovevora,Veragua; 

 Costa Rica; C'hontales, Nicaragua; Colian, Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 258, part (Guatemala; Nica- 

 ragua; Costa Rica; Veragua; Panama R. R.). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. 

 Costii Rica, i, 1887, 109 (San Jose, Costa Rica).— Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xiv, 1891, 531 (Costa Rica; crit.); Auk, ix, 1892, 25 (San Jos6, Costa 

 Rica). 



{^EupJionial j^t/M/Za Sclater and Salvin, Nom. \\. Neotr., 1873, 17, part. 



EUPHONIA GODMANI Brewster. 

 GODMAN'S EUPHONIA. 



Similar to J^. mluuta JiumiUs^ but decidedly larger and with l)ill much 

 stouter; adult male with yellow of forehead and under parts much 

 paler, the former much ])roader; head and neck more })rightly viola- 

 ceous, upper parts more violaceous steel blue, and inner webs of outer 

 most rectrices more extensively white; adult female paler and nuich 

 grayer olive-green above, with occiput and hindneck liluish gray, the 

 chest and sides much paler olive-yellowish, and the throat olive- 

 yellowish instead of pale gray. 



Ackdt male. — Forehead and anterior portion of crown (as far back 

 as posterior angle of ey^es) pale lemon or canar}' j^ellow; rest of head 



* Four specimens from Costa Rica. ■' Three specimens from Costa Rica. 



